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iTop

Score9.7 out of 10

3 Reviews and Ratings

What is iTop?

Combodo is an editor of ITSM open source solutions headquartered in France. In addition to advising and assisting companies in ITIL to improve their services and better control their information system, they offer iTop, their flagship open source ITSM software solution.

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Top Performing Features

  • Change requests repository

    Single repository of all planned changes and releases

    Category average: 8.4

  • Change calendar

    Calendar showing change schedule to stakeholders

    Category average: 8.4

  • Service-level management

    Process for negotiating agreements regarding service level expectations, and ensuring these are met

    Category average: 8.6

Areas for Improvement

  • Configuration mangement

    Database for tracking and reporting all business assets

    Category average: 8.6

  • Policy and contract enforcement

    Ensuring that requesters have eligibility before fullfullment

    Category average: 7.9

  • Asset management dashboard

    Dashboard showing organization's software portfolio

    Category average: 8.1

A prudent tool that is effective in tracking changes to SI from a simple routine to the start of production.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

The best hub to build a single solution that covers various customers while protecting the confidentiality essential to every organization. Designed by very professional IT people to manage the complex shared infrastructure. Has the ability to analyze the impact of an incident or a change on various services and contracts that you have to fulfill.

Pros

  • Change management.
  • Fully configurable configuration management.
  • Service and contract management.

Cons

  • CSV import tools for any data.
  • Data synchronization.
  • Graphical impact analysis.

Most Important Features

  • Consistency audit to check data quality.
  • Configurable SLA management.
  • Help desk and incident management.

Return on Investment

  • Has tickets that report requests and bugs .
  • Has documentation that covers official extensions.
  • Customizable CMDB.
  • Guidelines.

Alternatives Considered

SysAid

Other Software Used

SysAid

Community Edition: The best free helpdesk out there.

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use it for IT issue tracking and ITSM

Pros

  • Open source
  • Issue Tracking
  • Integrations

Cons

  • UI, the UI is outdated and clunky
  • Multi Tenancy. The app is not multi tenanted in a elegant way
  • Automation. I really think that they can add some more automation

Most Important Features

  • Open source
  • Community Edition
  • Change management

Return on Investment

  • We have been able to immediately see better handling of change Requests
  • We are able to see incidents more clearly
  • Integrations with existing stack brought quicker time to production

Alternatives Considered

ServiceNow Customer Service Management and Zendesk Support Suite